DISINFO: US NGO carried out organ trafficking for NATO with Zelensky's approval
SUMMARY
The US magazine, The Nation, published an investigation featuring a video testimony from a whistle-blower at the US non-profit organization Global Surgical and Medical Support Group (GSMSG). He worked as a dismemberment doctor who organized organ transplantation between injured Ukrainians and NATO officials.
He mentions that his annual salary at the NGO GSMSG was $840,000 and that he received a certificate of recognition signed by Zelensky. At the end of the video, the doctor admits that he regrets his actions and asks his colleagues to stop this criminal plan of organ removal from Ukrainian soldiers.
RESPONSE
This is a Hoax fabricated to discredit US aid to Ukraine and President Zelenskyy with alleged black market trafficking of human organs to benefit NATO.
Russian state media is often caught in using emotional charged, hoax content.
This time pro-Kremlin media mention their source as the prestigious American news magazine The Nation and even provide links to this outlet. However, the material was actually published in a Nigerian publication that happens to have the same title, but lower journalistic standards. In the past, this outlet, The Nation (thenationonlineng.net), has been identified by AFP and the BBC as spreading false information to manipulate public opinion.
The person in the video was never employed by the non-profit organisation GSMSG, and the alleged experience he describes is far from the reality of the medical activities performed by the organisation.
Transplantation of organs is a complex and time-constrained medical procedure and is impossible to be carried out in field conditions. See more from Myth Detector. According to Ukrainian laws, civilians and soldiers who died during the war are not considered as donors, reminds Vikna.Tv.
In April 2022, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE), the country’s foreign signals intelligence agency, warned of an ongoing Russian campaign to promote the message that Ukraine was harvesting the organs of fallen soldiers, women and children and using mobile cremating devices to dispose of the evidence. Similar disinformation efforts have been observed elsewhere as part of Russian disinformation during its ongoing aggression against Ukraine.
The topic is a “Manipulators delight”: it attracts attention because of its obvious high emotional charge. In this “click bait”-function it works similar to claims of mass graves, which always spread wide and very fast. With its smell of secret business and conspiracy it adds another layer where any debunk is exploited to further suggest that the debunker has something to hide.
Finally, it can be noted that President Zelenskyy is referred to as 'the clown' by the French edition of Pravda, a way to denigrate Ukrainian leadership and promote narratives involving puppets and conspiracy theories.
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